Dans la catégorie des sportifs qui, contrairement à George Laraque, sont capables de parler politique, voici Glenn Jacobs:
Plus l’État intervient… 
Deux graphiques plutôt effrayants:
Le 20 juillet dernier, l’Administration Obama a prolongé la durée des prestations de chômage à… 99 semaines ! C’est comme si les démocrates voulaient transformer les chômeurs en « BS »…
Citation de Lawrence Summers, faite avant qu’il devienne le président du conseil économique de Barack Obama, au sujet de l’assurance-chômage:
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« Unemployment insurance also extends the time a person stays off the job. Clark and I estimated that the existence of unemployment insurance almost doubles the number of unemployment spells lasting more than three months. If unemployment insurance were eliminated, the unemployment rate would drop by more than half a percentage point. |
Sources:
Average (Mean) Duration of Unemployment; Median Duration of Unemployment
Simplicité capitaliste & complexité socialiste 
Le système capitaliste est caractérisé par des échanges volontaires entre un acheteur et un vendeur. On peut représenter un tel système de la manière suivante:
Par opposition, voici à quoi ressemble le régime socialiste mis en place par Barack Obama dans le cadre de sa réforme du système de santé:
Voilà qui explique assez bien pourquoi tous les régimes socialistes ont été incapables de rivaliser avec leur pendant capitaliste.
Saine méfiance 
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Anti-government mood stifles regulatory push Public distrust of government is limiting the push for tighter federal regulations even in the wake of regulatory lapses that contributed to the financial meltdown, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and April’s deadly coal mine explosion. These disasters would seem likely candidates for nudging the public’s appetite for regulation, which typically ebbs and flows, toward the pro-oversight side. The reason, Democrats and government analysts say, is that the public’s desire for better regulations to protect consumers is trumped by a stronger dislike of the only power that can reasonably conduct such efforts: the government. At best, Americans seem conflicted about government regulation. In a new Bloomberg poll, a plurality of respondents said they have become more supportive of tougher regulations in recent months. Still, barely more than a third said there should be more government oversight in general, while the rest wanted less regulation or about the current amount. Moreover, most major regulations must come from Congress, which gets an unfavorable rating from nearly three out of every four Americans, according to a recent Associated Press-GfK poll. |